Want a brick wall along your yard or garden? We set a proper footing, fill every joint and cap it so it holds up outdoors.
Brick wall installation in Aliso Viejo means building a freestanding brick wall for your yard or garden, from a footing in solid ground up to a cap on top, so it marks your line, screens a view or frames a patio and holds up outdoors.
A garden wall carries no weight but its own, so most of what makes one last happens below ground and in the joints, which I'll walk you through below. The cap on top changes the look more than people expect, and it can be natural stone, cast stone, slate, terra cotta, metal or brick. If you'd like the whole wall in stone instead, that's our stone masonry work.
The price mostly follows how long and tall the wall is, the design, and the brick and cap you pick, along with how the ground slopes. The schedule usually turns on what the city and your association need before we dig. When I come out, I'll look at your spot and leave you an estimate for your own wall. We're licensed and insured, and we check with the city's building office before we start.
Call (949) 619-8220 or fill in the form with a few lines about the wall you have in mind. We'll find a time that suits you for me to come out.
I look at the ground, the slope and how we'd get brick in, answer your questions and talk through the design and the cap. You'll have an estimate for your wall in hand before you decide anything, so you know the number before you commit to a thing.
We check with the city's building office, handle the application and inspections if your wall needs a permit, and help you put your association request together. Under the Aliso Viejo Community Association, that request goes to your sub-association first and then to the MAC, the community association's own review, or straight to the MAC where there's no sub-association.
Our crew digs and pours the footing, lays the brick and sets the cap, and I'm on the job with them. When it's done, we clean up and walk the finished wall with you.
Long-standing brick industry guidance says garden wall footings often get too little attention, and that they belong in undisturbed earth below the frost line, built of brick or concrete, with reinforcement where the soil swells and shrinks. We give the footing as much attention as the brick itself, because a wall is only as straight as what it sits on. Whoever you hire, ask how they plan the footing.
A garden wall takes weather on both faces and the top, so the same guidance asks for every mortar joint to be completely filled, since any gap can start the wall breaking down. We fill ours full and give the cap the same care as the brick. On a long wall, a UK trade guide calls for movement joints, the gaps that let brick expand and shrink, twice as often as in a house wall, so ask where they'll go.
What a brick wall job covers:
If you already have a brick wall that's cracking or wearing, building new isn't always the answer. When the wall stands straight and only the mortar has worn, brick pointing, raking out the old joints and packing in fresh mortar, usually brings it back for far less. A wall that leans or has split top to bottom usually has a footing problem, and then I'd rather rebuild on a new footing than patch something that keeps moving.
Most of the cost follows the square footage of wall face, so length and height matter most. After that comes the design, since curves, steps and decorative piers take more labor than a straight run, and then the brick and cap you choose, with natural stone coping usually costing more than a brick cap. A sloped yard, tight access for materials or an old fence to tear out all add labor, and salvaged brick adds the time it takes us to check it.
I taught myself to lay brick and block and started this business in 2023, and I still come out to look at every job, write the estimate and work on the wall with our masons and helpers. A lot of our calls are careful repair work, so I'm used to telling people what's going on with a wall before they spend anything.
I'd rather take extra time explaining than have you pay for work you don't need, and I'm happy to answer the same question twice. If something can't be known until the ground is open, or the job needs an engineer or another trade, I'll tell you. We keep your yard tidy, clean up when we're done, and our work comes with one promise, satisfaction guaranteed.
We take calls from morning until 10 PM, seven days a week, so call (949) 619-8220 whenever it suits you.
Tell us the wall's length and height, how the ground slopes and your association's name. We respond within 1 business day, then I come out for a free on-site estimate, no pressure to book.
Brick wall installation in Orange County usually costs about $19 to $20 per square foot of wall face, so the size of your wall moves the figure most. That's the area's usual price, not ours, and the design, the cap and your site all shift where your wall lands. I'll give you a figure for your own wall at the estimate.
Start with the city's Building & Safety department, which handles building and grading permits, and read its Fences and Walls handout along with the permit application. The handout sets out the rules for your own wall.
In California, the C-29 masonry contractor license covers masonry walls for structures and for fences, with or without mortar, so that's the license to look for. The state does let someone without a license take on minor work up to $1,000, but only when the work needs no permit and they employ no one on the project.
You can, but only if it meets the SW grade, the brick grade made for severe weather, because brick guidance advises against used brick for garden walls otherwise. Used brick often falls short since it was burned unevenly, so if you have salvaged brick in mind, we check that it's the right grade before we build with it.
A pier and panel wall is usually the best fit for uneven ground, because its thin brick panels are braced at intervals by brick piers and adapt easily as the ground changes. Brick guidance also calls it relatively easy to build and economical, so it's worth asking about if your budget is tight.
Ask what mortar they plan to use, because garden wall guidance recommends portland cement, hydrated lime and sand, a mix that's very durable and bonds well with clay brick. Then ask the footing and movement joint questions above, and how they'll cap the wall.
We're based in Aliso Viejo and build brick walls in Laguna Niguel, Mission Viejo and the other cities around it. Pick your area below, or call us if yours isn't listed.
